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Amen Corner – Written By The Devil (Hammerheart Records)

Even ‘If Paradise is (half as nice) don’t worry that is not where we are heading. Hell is a much more likely proposition and it is unlikely when forming over 30 years ago that this Brazilian cult had any idea… Continue Reading →

Corax B.M. – Pagana (The Circle Music)

When a pagan black metal band is described as owing a lot to early Rotting Christ, Necromantia, thrash metal and even hardcore influences, then I’m interested. This is Corax B.M. from Greece. “Pagana” is the band’s first full length album…. Continue Reading →

Aeon Winds – Night Sky Illuminations (Avantgarde Music)

This is Slovakian black metal band Aeon Winds third (I think) full length in a little over a decade but, as is my wont skulking down in the depths of lo-fi cassette world of late, my first acquaintance. But it… Continue Reading →

The Magus – Vissodomontas (The Circle Music)

The Magus, veteran of the Greek black metal world and mastermind behind Necromantia, one of the finest pioneers of the Hellenic sound has finally made his solo debut. Βυσσοδομώντας (Vissodomontas) is the Greek word for “building in the depths”, a… Continue Reading →

Arrogant Destruktor – Written In Blood From The Blade (Awakening Records)

It doesn’t seem like three years since this Birmingham wrecking ball of a band graced my review lists but that’s what pandemics do for you I suppose. Time doesn’t just distort in one direction it gets bent out of shape… Continue Reading →

Nighted – Abscence (Klang Machine)

Nighted made me feel old. The intro to ‘Aeons’ the first offering is distorted electronica which plunges into a hellbent riff and suddenly I’m back to early Necromantia circa Scarlet Evil Witching Black; great driving black metal with weird electronic… Continue Reading →

Necromantia – To The Depths We Descend… (The Circle Music)

Lay down your souls to the gods Rock and roll, Black Metal! Yes, tis the season to be grim and frostbitten. Hang up your favourite Halloween decorations, don your corpse-paint and march forth into battle! I’m such a seasonal Black… Continue Reading →

Grand Celestial Nightmare – Forbidden Knowledge And Ancient Wisdom (New Era)

With somewhere over 25 active projects on the go currently it is no surprise finding another helmed by the prolific Belgian artist Mories so quickly after the last one. That was Schemer Heer where our restless composer summoned the essence… Continue Reading →

Yoth Iria – As The Flame Withers (Pagan Records)

The band name of this Greek act may be unfamiliar to you but the duo within its ranks are certainly not, comprising Jim Mutilator (ex-Rotting Christ up to 1996) and The Magus (Necromantia and also ex-Rotting Christ). Both are legendary… Continue Reading →

Funeral Storm – Arcane Mysteries (Hells Headbangers)

I guess the Greek black metal scene will always hold a special place in my catalogued heart simply because bands like Necromantia and Varathron were some of the first I came across in my faltering first steps into black metal… Continue Reading →

Ysengrin / StarGazer– D.A.V.V.N (Nuclear War Now! Productions)

NWN have a series of split releases that started in 2015 that have been thematically linked as this split represents the third in that series which follows an alchemical concept that I won’t go into here, predominantly because I have… Continue Reading →

Ophidian Forest – votive (Code666)

Ok I mostly picked this up through intrigue. Intrigue caused by an ex-guitarist running their original Facebook page, not having talked to them for five years, directing people to the new page and mumbling about not having a clue what… Continue Reading →

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